[GNC] I'm getting started in Gnucash and want to list each item that I buy from one merchant

[sunfish62 at yahoo.com]

I'll note that because GnuCash keeps a running really of the amount needed to balance the transaction, users adding a new line to that transaction can get confusing results. 

For example, a user adds a new transaction for a grocery store and places a left column entry for $35 assigned to Expenses:Groceries. They tab off the line, intending to add another split for $15 for Expenses:Household and tab to the left column and enter $15. However, in the right column, GnuCash has already supplied the balancing $35 for the first split. As user tabs of the line, GnuCash takes $15 and combines it with the $35, resulting in a right column entry for $20, rather than a left column entry in the intended amount. 

⁣David T. ​

On Mar 11, 2024, 6:25 PM, at 6:25 PM, "W. Neal Lewis" <wnlewis at southwind.net> wrote:
>David,
>
>No, I found out very quickly that return causes that sort of result.
>
>Best regards,
>Neal
>
>On 3/9/24 10:32 PM, David Carlson wrote:
>> Neal,
>>
>> By chance are you using the enter key during your editing?
>>
>> That triggers the full transactiion calculatkions.  Use arrow keys,
>ta b
>> key or mouse buttons until you are ready to see the transaction
>calculation.
>>
>> I think calculztions within individual amount fields happen as soon
>as you
>> move out of that field unless you are creating a scheduled
>transaaction.
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 9, 2024, 8:36 PM Adrien Monteleone <
>> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not certain what you are describing, but I'll hazard a guess
>that
>>> you are seeing GnuCash auto-balance the transaction. That is normal.
>>> Every transaction has to be balanced. (Debits *must* equal Credits)
>>>
>>> You are free to enter the transaction however you like, as long as
>that
>>> holds true. If your self-entered amounts do not result in equal
>Debits &
>>> Credits, GnuCash will create a split initially not assigned to any
>>> account, but when you commit the transaction and that split remains,
>it
>>> will be assigned to the account labeled: 'Imbalance-XXX' (where XXX
>is a
>>> currency code) for the difference.
>>>
>>> Please read the GnuCash Help Manual and the Tutorial & Concepts
>Guide
>>> available in the Help Menu, or online, as you are learning the
>software.
>>> Then if you get stuck, come back and ask for help here.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Adrien
>>>
>>> On 3/9/24 8:18 PM, W. Neal Lewis wrote:
>>>> When I do the View > Transaction and put in individual numbers for
>each
>>> item in the Withdrawal column, it starts to mess with my figures. It
>puts
>>> in a number at the very top. It adds deposits to other entries. What
>I end
>>> up with is a mish-mash of costs that the program seems to think that
>I need
>>> for some mythical number it has come up with.
>>>> That's exactly what happened previously. I don't want it adding
>numbers,
>>> or changing numbers. I just want to put in the correct values for
>each
>>> line, including tax, hit return and have the final value show up on
>the
>>> first line of the transaction.
>>>> I obviously don't know what I am doing.
>>>>
>>>> Help!
>>>> Neal
>>>
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